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Officers and Executive Board

Rabbi Shira Stern Dmin., BCC has served on the Board for a number of years, and and sits as an NAJC representative on the Council on Collaboration and the American Red Cross Critical Response Team. She has been a full time acute-care hospital chaplain and now has a private pastoral counseling practice in Marlboro, NJ. She lectures and teaches in synagogues, JCCs and Healing Centers and leads services at two area independent and assisted living facilities.

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Chaplain Sheila Segal, MA, BCC has served two terms on the NAJC Board and is past chair of the NAJC Ethics Committee. She was an NAJC representative to the CoC commission that created joint standards for professional chaplaincy. Sheila has worked in long-term care for more than a decade and also has experience in acute-care and hospice chaplaincy. She has written and lectured on palliative care and other end-of-life issues.

NAJC Secretary

Rabbi Robert Tabak, PhD BCC. is now serving as secretary of the NAJC. He is a former NAJC vice president.  He has been a congregational rabbi and associate director of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia. He is currently as staff chaplain at the Hospital of  the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Bob served on the NAJC ethics committee, and co-chaired a committee that developed joint standards for ethics processes with other North American pastoral care organizations through the Council on Collaboration. He is also an historian, and has a number of entries in the forthcoming revised Encyclopedia Judaica, including the first entry on "Chaplaincy."

Rabbi Lowell S. Kronick is the Chair of the NAJC Commission on Certification since 2003. He formulated a rigorous set of certification standards that are in line with other major professional chaplaincy cognate groups while maintaining a focus on the Jewish uniqueness of our Association. He is Board Certified by NAJC, the Association for Professional Chaplains (APC), and the National Association of Veterans Affairs Chaplains (NAVAC). He joined the National VA Chaplain Center in Hampton , VA as an Associate Director in October 2001 after thirty years of distinguished service as a private-sector health-care chaplain and synagogue executive in New York City . In February 2005, he was promoted to Associate Director for Education and is responsible for the continuing education and training of VA chaplains nationwide. Lowell is regarded as a master educator and expert on professional chaplain development.
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Rabbi Sandra Katz

Rabbi Ephraim Karp

NAJC Chairs,

Conference Commission

Rabbi Sandra Katz, BCJC - NAJC Conference Commission Chair Sandra is the Director of Spiritual Care at the Golden Slipper Health and Rehab Center in Philadelphia, PA. After an interval as Assistant Editor of the NAJC Newsletter, Sandra edited the publication for two years. She has served on the Certification Commission and at the inception of the Ethics Committee. Sandra has been on the NAJC Board since 2001.

Cecille is the coordinator of the Joint Chaplaincy Committee of Metrowest, Central, Greater Monmouth, and Princeton, Mercer, Bucks New Jersey.
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2006 - 2007 Officers and Board